Screwed by contributors?

Godel said:
Haha, I know your pain! I uploaded a CG set by fuji shinobu since a vast amount of his work was already accepted (as well as it being quite good imo), a few of them made it to the "popular" page. Then the approvers got tired of the CG set (or the one that liked it went afk) and I got 2 deleted that were not much different than the accepted ones I had uploaded the previous day. I still have more from the CG set but don't want to acquire more deletions so I held back on uploading them XD

Ooh, deletion stories? I want to share one! So I was looking at some pictures on deviantart and saw some work by a very impressive artist who seemed to have a decent bit of images. "This guy hase to have been posted on danbooru by now," I though, but I ran a search for his name to check anyway. To my surprise, nothing came up. Moments later, I had uploaded one of his images only to find it retagged in short order to a different artist...an artist that the name used on deviantart was an alias of who had indeed been posted to danbooru already...including the picture I had just uploaded. There was one small difference, though. The image from deviantart was about 5%-10% smaller than the one that had been posted so it hadn't been automatically detected as a duplicate. Instead, it went to the mod queue to die. In case you're curious, I do look back on this and laugh.

I'll join too :D
A lot of touhou and doujin pages made me learn my lesson. It took me A LOT of lurking to understand what is accepted more or less. The main problem I only have now is uploading duplicates, which apparently I have bad luck with seeming as the find similar button fails me sometimes. That and the quick urge to upload something the minute I see it.

Yeah, having a post deleted isn't the end of the world. Hell, my first (and thus far only) deleted post came after I was a contributor already. I uploaded it mostly because it was a picture from my favourite artist, even though I didn't care for it. Had I thought about it more, I would have realized that it violated the TOS, and wouldn't have posted it.

But hey, live and learn.

Eld said:
The image from deviantart was about 5%-10% smaller than the one that had been posted so it hadn't been automatically detected as a duplicate.

I usually check images in iqdb before uploading them, for precisely this reason. If what I'm uploading turns out to be a higher quality version of something already on danbooru, it even helps me to know what posts to set as children of the image I just posted.

Don't worry, if a post gets near the queue limit a moderator will usually review it one last time. If all else fails and it gets deleted you can appeal the deletion.

As for flags:
Sometimes people just like to screw with people. If someone flags one of your posts it is probably a user trying to get even or yank your chain. More often than not a good moderator will see that there is no justification for the flag and will re-approve it.

Other times it's a mystery as to why posts get flagged for deletion.

Um, did you read the thread, RiderFan? Nobody was talking about flagging at all. I'd also probably say in general that if someone flags one of your posts it's more likely due to the post warranting being flagged rather than due to malice. If it legitimately is the latter it should be brought to someone's attention, but it doesn't seem to be a common issue.